<p>Is Tulane an open door school, and if not is easy to transfer to other college departments?</p>
<p>If by open door you mean transferring freely between colleges without applications or departmental approval, no. You must apply to engineering, business and architecture separately from Tulane and Newcomb. I believe the new four year program in business begins next year. Currently business hopefuls apply as sophomores for their junior year. Transfers between departments in Tulane I have no knowledge about. I haven't heard any scuttlebut about transfer difficulties.</p>
<p>Someone who knows - like Rico - may be able to give you a better idea about how easy or hard a transfer is to accomplish. That part, I have no idea about.</p>
<p>I was at the honors weekend program and a student told me that it is kind of case-based. It is very difficult to transfer into the architecture school because you will have to start all over. You must go in an order of sequence, from studio 1 to studio 2 to studio 3 and so on. If you miss the boat, you have to wait until the next year for it to begin all over again. He said he is basically having to add a year in order to switch. However, within liberal arts and whatnot it is a lot easier because many prerequisites overlap. A lot of students double or even triple major (some even quadrupled). So within a certain college it isn't difficult but I would say one of the more structured fields it will be much harder.</p>
<p>As a side note to that, engineering and pre-med have pretty much the same schedule their first year.</p>